Author Archives: Leslieville Historical Society

Six Laner to Soar, Globe and Mail, May 4, 1954

Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek

a creek … also started near the sandpit and ran through the gardens of Cooper’s, Bests and Hunters, crossed the road by the Leslie Postoffice. Here it joined a small creek that drained the nursery, and both crossed Leslie street under a bridge that has since been filled up by intersecting sewers.  The Globe, JanuaryContinue reading “Looking for the Ghost of Leslie Creek”

Location, Location, Location

A Graphic Presentation of Toronto’s Real Estate Activity, Toronto Star, May 1, 1912 Key to the Map The Neighbourhoods

Rolph Clark Stone April 1951

Ashbridge’s Creek: twins: one captured, one free

Morley Avenue and Gerrard Street fill operations, April 28, 1912 Looking east across Woodfield Road (then called Morley Avenue) towards Coxwell. Ashbridges Creek is in the deep ravine. A culvert has been installed under Gerrard Street to carry the creek south. Workers will install a cement artificial creek about 18-30 metres below the surface. TheyContinue reading “Ashbridge’s Creek: twins: one captured, one free”